The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1887-12-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.


ill-omen from the path OF the bride,
to enable her to safely pursue her mat
rllnOntal career.
"A Buffalo canary has a miniature
we'll III its cage, with q bucket, the
icliaint ofewhich reaches to Its porch.
When 1t wants q drink 1T draws lip the
bucket, much to the delight of the
children IN the neighDorhool,
"A lErench horticulturist, Count du
Boyssoli, insures the growth of seeds su
oldFas to llavegn doubtful, terminating
power by soaking them for thlrLy.slx
hours in water containing q little
guano or other source Of nitrogen.
Tho gold mines Of australia con-
tinue to he very productive. Some OF
them are more than 1000 feet In depth,
and many will be sunk even lower
than chat in the llear. future. rhis is
contrary to the. predictions OF old min.
ing experts, wlio said many years ago
that no gold would ever be found in
Australia at q depth greater than
hundred feet. es
An abandoned. set OF natural gas
mains In East Liverpool, Ohio, ls ca,s-
Ing considerable worry to the resi.4
dents OF that city. The pipes arr
leaky, III many places broken In two.
and as gas IS flowing through them the
danger OF an explosion las become
3alarmlngly apparent And tho stuu-
tion is rendered all,tlls more dangerous
iDy Tie fact that the source or tue gpa
supply isa mystery.
The saying, "You got out OF bed
the wrong foot foremost" :" or With he
left leg foremost, can be traced back
5000 years, and originated precisely
where The picture given by Christ OF
right foot was associated in al antiu-
uity with good LUCK, ana the left with
bad fortune.sIIence to put the left foot
out OF bed first was a bad sign.
77It was Cardinal Wolsey, ''as he
lay dying, and perhaps looked back
over his strange llfe, beginning at the
time when he was u little school boy,
and poor mans son, through all HIS
ambition and Ills industry, aua bower +
and splendor, who said: "If L had
served Cod as diligently as have
served the king, heswould not haya :
me over In my gray hairs
;..,rr-.lSighteen years ago, when tAeSs 4
ilds :sS lli {, EsIi nj jy5;5s
sfeet' long F6nr years ii Sef ths inns
4 was reduced four second Isl i5s.R RecenG Ok \,
periments with the air. brake on freight
trains show that 1t can Ds applied to
every car III 3, train Of that length run.
ming at the'rate Of forty miles an hour,
and that this train can be- stopped
within 500 feet, or one-fOurth OF its
own length, iantl%ali4this without any
serious Jo!ting.
& The ffteenss great Americdn inyen>
uons%of world Swtde adoption, are: |,
the: ettoncgin;T2, the planning machine;
:, the grass. mower and reaper; 4, the
rotary printing press; s, navigation by
steam;:G. tlie' hSt.air eengine;7, the
sewing machine; 3. the, ,Indla-ruDber
'lndustrw 8, the machine manufacture
Of llorseshoes; 10, tho sand blasts for
carving; IL, the. gauge lathe; II, the
grain elevator; 13, artificial iice.making
on large scale; IA the electric mag
net and its practical application; Il,
the telephone.
"A farmer living near Lewiston,
Me-. who used horse to run his fodder
cutting machine, was much annoyed at
FREQUENT stoppings Of the horse power,
l(artlc nlarlY as soon as the horse was
lett alone. lie accordingly watched
The animal (which, as sr0on as It thought
Its master was away, reached over The
Side of the machine. grabbed the brake
with Its teeth, pulled 1T oyer anu
stopped the machine. The old horse
Is said to have actually looked sad
when the farmer tied tho brake down
anu started him OH the treadmn!
again. 4,
---Macacus monkeys on the island OF
South Burmah open oysters with "A
stone. They bring the stone from
high water mark down TO low water,
selecting such stones as they can easily
grasp. They effect the opening by
striking the base Of the upper valve
until 1t dlslocates anu breaks up. They
then extract the oyster with the finger
and thumb, occasionally putting the
mouth straight to the broken she'll.
The way they have chosen is the
easiest way TO open the shell.
The use OF kangaroo skins for
leather has come rapidly into fashion
withln'a year or two, and those ami
mails, which were once regarded as a
nuisance in Australia, are now priced
and sought for. Porpoise leather is :.
also commodity largely in demand,
and man or woman wearing costly
pair or shoes cannot well be sure,
nowadays, whether the, material came
from the Australian bush, the South
seas, or the back OF q 1'oxas steer.
IA report based upon an Inspection
of l.214 factories in l25 different
braches of work In Russia atates that
the hours Of labor there vary from six
to twenty, and that IN or two special
Instances Workmen were compelled to
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